<![CDATA[Leslie Bennett]]>27369Erin Howe112744381282010-05-21 10:35:2815047178422017-09-06 17:10:4200profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>352771352771image<![CDATA[Leslie Bennett 2014]]>14492457282015-12-04 16:15:2814758950802016-10-08 02:51:20<![CDATA[Joshua Smith]]>27814Lisa Herrmann113819957212013-10-17 07:42:0115047145792017-09-06 16:16:1900profileJoshua Smith is the building coordinator for the School of Music.]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>354921354921image<![CDATA[Josh Smith 2014]]>14492457432015-12-04 16:15:4314758950842016-10-08 02:51:24<![CDATA[Alexander Lerch]]>27814 Alexander Lerch studied electronic engineering at the Technical University Berlin and Tonmeister (Sound Engineering) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in algorithmic music performance analysis from the Technical University Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the industry leader company "zplane" - a research-driven technology provider for the music industry. At zplane, Lerch worked on the design and implementation of algorithms for music processing and music information retrieval that have been licensed to companies such as Ableton, Native Instruments, Sony, and Steinberg. In addition to his work at zplane, Lerch lectured in the audio communications department of the Technical University Berlin. His book "An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis: Applications in Signal Processing and Music Informatics" was published in 2012 by IEEE / Wiley press.]]> Lisa Herrmann113778598942013-08-30 10:51:3414527214542016-01-13 21:44:1400profileMusic Information Retrieval; Digital Signal Professing]]>Music Information Retrieval and Digital Signal Processing]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>354031193851233821657940354031image<![CDATA[alexander lerch 2014]]>14492457382015-12-04 16:15:3814758950842016-10-08 02:51:24193851image<![CDATA[Alexander Lerch]]>14491798912015-12-03 21:58:1114758948432016-10-08 02:47:23233821image<![CDATA[Alexander Lerch]]>14492436412015-12-04 15:40:4114758949032016-10-08 02:48:23657940image<![CDATA[Launchpad Spring 2022 Student Showcase]]>16516668622022-05-04 12:21:0216516668622022-05-04 12:21:02<![CDATA[Timothy Hsu]]>27214Michael Sheldon114430163582015-09-23 13:52:3814430307582015-09-23 17:52:3800profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>133991133991image<![CDATA[Profile Silhouette - Male]]>14491786712015-12-03 21:37:5114758946762016-10-08 02:44:36<![CDATA[Frank L. Clark]]>27369 Frank Clark, professor and chair in the Georgia Tech School of Music, received his Bachelor of Music Education at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. He was awarded a Masters in Horn Performance from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Music Theory/Composition from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Previously, he was chair of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory at the University of South Alabama, coordinator of music at Lewis Clark State College, and an assistant professor at Pacific University and the University of Northern Iowa.
He is a sought-after consultant and a published multimediaist and composer. He has received numerous awards and honors and presents regularly at the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME), the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI), and the College Music Society (CMS).
]]> Erin Howe112738349822010-05-14 11:03:0214430294122015-09-23 17:30:1200profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>5581855818image<![CDATA[Frank L. Clark]]>14491755562015-12-03 20:45:5614758944942016-10-08 02:41:34<![CDATA[Chaowen Ting]]>27814Lisa Herrmann114207190302015-01-08 12:10:3014208335252015-01-09 19:58:4500profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>362831362831image<![CDATA[Chaowen Ting]]>14492457932015-12-04 16:16:3314758950982016-10-08 02:51:38<![CDATA[Corissa James]]>27369Erin Howe112744535402010-05-21 14:52:2014206487802015-01-07 16:39:4000profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>353191353191image<![CDATA[corissa james 2014]]>14492457282015-12-04 16:15:2814758950802016-10-08 02:51:20<![CDATA[Cameron "Chip" Crotts]]>27213View Crotts's Full C.V.
Dr. Chip Crotts is Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Director of Bands at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Highly active as a professional trumpet player, Chip has performed and recorded for the Disney Company in Europe and the United States, and as a first call player, maintains an active career of national touring shows, regional symphony dates and local performances throughout the year. A Grammy nominated performer, Dr. Crotts has recorded and worked with hundreds of artists over the years, including Boston Brass, the Manhattan Transfer, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, The Temptations and Maynard Ferguson, among others.
A passionate educator, Chip is highly involved in the fields of music education and jazz, and stays active as a clinician and adjudicator for such organizations as Bands of America and Drum Corps International. Recent years has seen Chip teaching several of the top drum corps in the world, most notably, Phantom Regiment and Blue Devils, with which he won multiple world championships in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
At the Institute, Dr. Crotts is highly engaged in research driven by his interests in both music and health. Having a direct correlation to high level wind playing, the study of breathing and its practical application in health is at the forefront of his work and he strives for a world where the average person is engaged in wind instrument plying for the dual purpose of musical enjoyment and improved health outcomes. Chip also devotes time to the study of versatility in musicianship, as well as a focus on jazz pedagogy, education and its practical application to the arts and society in general.
Currently, Chip stays active performing with many Atlanta based groups, such as the Joe Gransden Big Band, Drive-By Big Band, the Usual Suspects and Jazz Orchestra Atlanta. Dr. Crotts also works regionally with the orchestras of Chattanooga, Huntsville, and Alabama, as well as being a member of the Tuscaloosa Horns, playing alongside the likes of Frankie Vallee, Brandon Bennett, The Four Tops and the OJ’s.
A Yamaha Performing Artist and Clinician, Chip previously served on the faculties of Samford University, Jacksonville State University and The University of Texas at Austin.
Educational Background:
1994- BM in Music Business, East Carolina University
1998- MM in Orchestral Performance, Penn State University
2002 - DMA in Performance with a Jazz Emphasis, University of Texas-Austin
Fields:
Jazz & Commercial Music
Brass Pedagogy and Education
Techniques for Instrumental Music Ensembles
Music and Health
]]> Teri Nagel113140908702011-08-23 09:14:3014189266032014-12-18 18:16:4300profileJazz education; brass pedagogy; real world application of advanced breathing exercises; music and health, successful teaching techniques for the outdoor performing ensemble]]>Music and Health is an incredibly important aspect of a musician's life and has real world application beyond academia. The joy of music and its relation to health cannot be understated and in many ways, these may go hand in hand.
In terms of my own research agenda, I intend to find better ways to meld these areas together and am working towards showing improved health outcomes through wind instrument playing and advanced breathing techniques. Inclusion of peak brass performance, work with older citizens and focus on younger music students are focal points of my interests and will be mainstays in this research and testing.
]]>MUSI 1301-4301: Jazz Ensemble(s)
MUSI 3610: Composers and their Music, 1500-1800
MUSI 4803: History of Jazz - 1900-present
]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>7027370273image<![CDATA[Chip Crotts_2011]]>14491773042015-12-03 21:15:0414758946162016-10-08 02:43:36<![CDATA[Gil Weinberg]]>27369 Gil Weinberg is the founding director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where he established the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in music technology. He is a professor in the School of Music and an adjunct professor in the School of Interactive Computing. Weinberg's research aims at expanding musical expression, creativity, and learning through meaningful applications of technology. His research interests include robotic musicianship, new instruments for musical expression, mobile music, and sonification. During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and seven patent applications. Based on his recent inventions - a set of musical applications that allow novices to create music in expressive and intuitive manner - he is has founded a startup company - ZOOZ Mobile - whose products have been downloaded by close to two millions users.
Weinberg's music has been featured in festivals and concerts such as Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH, and with orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish BBC Symphony. His interactive musical installations have been presented in museums such as the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Boston Children's Museum. With his improvising robotic musicians, Haile and Shimon, he has traveled world wide, featuring dozens of concerts and presentations in festivals and conferences such as SIGGRAPH, DLD, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. Weinberg received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and his bachelor of arts degree from the Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence in Tel Aviv University.
]]> Erin Howe112738353542010-05-14 11:09:1414183155662014-12-11 16:32:4600profile<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>354831354831image<![CDATA[Gil Weinberg 2014]]>14492457432015-12-04 16:15:4314758950842016-10-08 02:51:24<![CDATA[Jerry A. Ulrich]]>27369 ASCAP award-winning arranger/composer Jerry Ulrich is originally from Illinois, where he received his early training in music and interest in songwriting. His compositions and arrangements are in the catalogs of six publishers in the US and abroad. His music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and on national radio and television, as well asthroughout Europe, Asia, and Australia.
He has composed commissioned works for professional choirs and orchestras, including the Grammy-award winning Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has written music for colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Ulrich is currently director of choral activities in the School of Music, where he directs two mixed choirs and the all-male Georgia Tech Glee Club. Ulrich came to Atlanta from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (the Fame school) in New York City, where his choirs were featured in all major NYC concert venues and on national and international television and radio.
Ulrich's prior teaching experience includes university positions in Ohio and New York. During 1990-1991 he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. His early training included four years singing with legendary conductor Robert Shaw in the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Chamber Chorus.
In the past ten years, five different choral ensembles under his direction have appeared over a dozen times at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
Educational Background
1977 - B.M. with Honors (Music Education), Eastern Illinois University - Charleston
1978 - Master of Music (Choral Conducting), Southern Methodist University – Dallas, TX
1986- D.M.A. (Conducting and Literature), University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music
Fields
Choral Conducting
Music Education
]]> Erin Howe112738352112010-05-14 11:06:5114183150452014-12-11 16:24:0500profilechoral conducting, choral arranging and composition, choral music education, music education, Holistic music education]]>In my work, teaching and research are inexorably intertwined and inform one another. As an agent of change, I use the collaborative process to envision possibilities, imagine new paradigms, involve colleagues in a variety of disciplines and institutions, and develop student ownership in the process of rehearsal, performance, and research. This comprehensive approach is often counterintuitive to the more “traditional” single-focused conservatory curricula. But music in general, and choral music in particular, is an ideal medium for cultural interface, interdisciplinary experiences, cross-campus interactions, and individual growth. Permeating this collaborative fabric, the philosophical drivers of diversity and inclusion are vital and recurring themes. Choral program innovation and development, composition and arranging, and presentation/guest conducting are my primary areas of focus. Although separate, they are distinctly interrelated and have consistently proven to be the most effective vehicles for realizing my creative goals.
Recent Publications
Ulrich, J. (Accepted for Publication). It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Society! Rethinking Barbershop Singing in Your High School Choral Program. Music Educators National Conference.
Ulrich, J. (March, 2009) Preparing the Conductor as Teacher. Music Educator’s Journal, 95 (3), 48-52.
Ulrich, J. (2008). Engaging the iPod Generation: Perspectives from a New Generation of Conductors. Choral Journal, 48 (8), 36-44.
Ulrich, J. (2004). Spotlight on Transition to Teaching Music. MENC: Music Educators National Conference, Reston Virginia, 158
Original Compositions
St. John’s Carol Anthem (SAB chorus, assembly, keyboard and C instrument), GIA Publications (Chicago, IL) G-6875 (2008).
I Know a Garden (SATB chorus, piano), Yelton Rhodes Music (Los Angeles, California) YR1U11 (2007).
Palm Sunday Anthem (Mixed choir, organ), Neil A. Kjos Music Company (San Diego, California) 9075 (2007).
Music, when Soft Voices die (SSAA and violoncello), Yelton Rhodes Music (Los Angeles, California) YR1U12 (2007).
Gaelic Benediction (SAB chorus, piano, with optional C instrument), Abingdon Press, (Nashville, Tennessee) 9780687646524 (2007).
When You Are Old and Gray (SAB chorus and piano), Yelton Rhodes Music, (Los Angeles, California) YR1U13 (2007).
Ye Banks and Braes (SAB chorus, piano), Hinshaw Music, (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) HMC2121 (2007).
Walkin’ Up The King’s Highway (SATB chorus and optional piano), Abingdon Press (Nashville, Tennessee) 0687495202 (2005).
]]>Recent Courses
MUSI 1201 - Chorale
MUSI 2201 - Chorale
MUSI 3201 - Chorale
MUSI 4201 - Chorale
MUSI 1211 - Chamber Choir
MUSI 2211 - Chamber Choir
MUSI 3211 - Chamber Choir
MUSI 4211 - Chamber Choir
MUSI 1221 - Glee Club
MUSI 2221 - Glee Club
MUSI 3221- Glee Club
MUSI 4221 - Glee Club
MUSI 4813 - Special Topics R01
-
]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>354261354261image<![CDATA[Jerry Ulrich 2014]]>14492457432015-12-04 16:15:4314758950842016-10-08 02:51:24<![CDATA[Chris Moore]]>27369 Christopher Moore currently serves as director of athletic bands and coordinator of percussion studies. He previously served as assistant director and staff arranger of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Band and director of instrumental music at Marist School in Atlanta. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Jacksonville State University and a Master of Music degree from East Carolina University. Moore is an active freelance performer, clinician, arranger, composer, and film scorer. His compositions and arrangements have been performed nationally and internationally. He has served as percussion and arranging consultant to Wynton Marsalis on three large works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Moore also is director of the Atlanta Falcons Drumline and House Band.
Educational Background
1988 - Master of Music, East Carolina University
1986 - Bachelor of Arts, Jacksonville State University
MUSI 2521,3521,4521 – Electronic Percussion Studio/ Ensemble (1998 – present)
MUSI 4630 – Music Recording and Mixing (2000 – present)
MUSI 6103 – Music Recording and Mixing (2008 – present)
MUSI 3803 – Media Production (2006 – present)
]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>354071354071image<![CDATA[Chris Moore 2014]]>14492457382015-12-04 16:15:3814758950842016-10-08 02:51:24<![CDATA[Jason A. Freeman]]>27369 Jason Freeman’s works break down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. His music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, the So Percussion Group, the Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Nieuw Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and Evan Ziporyn; and his works have been featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, the Boston CyberArt Festival, 01SJ, and the Transmediale Festival and featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio. N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella) (2003), a commission from Turbulence.org, was described by Billboard as “…an example of the web’s mind-expanding possibilities.”
Freeman received his B.A. in music from Yale University and his M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Music at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Educational Background
1999 – B.A. in Music (summa cum laude), Yale University 2001 – M.A. in music composition, Columbia University 2005 – D.M.A. in music composition, Columbia University
For me, composing music is more than a means for artistic expression, it is a mechanism to reflect upon my experiences with music and to share those experiences with others. My work is driven by a continual exploration of how music has been meaningful to me — as a composer, as a performer, and as a listener. In short, I write music not to express ideas but to share experiences.
Driven by these motivations, I often create music that moves beyond the printed score. The context within which the work exists, along with my relationship to its performers and listeners, are important design elements. The dynamic process by which we collaboratively create the work’s musical content — through live audience participation or in online environments — can be as important to me as any specific musical product that may result.
In these works, technology is never an end in itself. It is a means by which to accomplish an artistic goal. My research in computer vision, real-time music notation, and networked music enables me to create collaborative experiences with performers and audiences via novel input interfaces, via algorithms which process that input, and via output mechanisms that generate sound or communicate with musicians.
J. Freeman and A. Van Troyer. "Collaborative Textual Improvisation in a Laptop Ensemble." Computer Music Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2011.
J. Freeman and A. Colella. "Tools for Real-time Notation." Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2010.
J. Freeman. "Web-based Collaboration, Live Musical Performance, and Open-form Scores." International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2010.
J. Freeman and M. Godfrey. "Creative Collaboration Between Audiences and Musicians in Flock." Digital Creativity, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2010.
Performances and Exhibitions
UrbanRemix (with Carl DiSalvo and Michael Nitsche). Times Square Arts Alliance, New York. April and May, 2011.
Piano Etudes. WienerTage KlavierMusik, Vienna. February 7-10, 2011.
UrbanRemix (with Carl DiSalvo and Michael Nitsche). Art on the Beltline, Atlanta. June 26, 2010.
LOLC (with Akito Van Troyer). Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Princeton. April 3, 2010.
Piano Etudes (with Kathleen Supové, piano). Making New Waves Festival, Budapest. December 11, 2009.
Graph Theory. International Computer Music Conference, Montreal. August 18, 2009.
Recent Funded Projects
2010, Principal Investigator – Google Faculty Research Grant – UrbanRemix
2010, Principal Investigator – French-American Cultural Exchange Fund – Sonic Generator Performance with Philippe Leroux and Donatienne Michel-Dansac
2009, Co-Principal Investigator – National Science Foundation – “Modeling Music Improvisation to Support Creativity in Performance and Education”
]]>Recent Courses
MUSI 3450 – Survey of Music Technology
MUSI 6002 – Interactive Music
MUSI 6003 – Music Technology: History and Repertoire
MUSI 6303 – Network Music
MUSI 6304 – Computer Music Composition
MUSI 7100 – Music Tech Research Lab
]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>352941352941image<![CDATA[Jason Freeman]]>14492457282015-12-04 16:15:2814758950802016-10-08 02:51:20<![CDATA[Benjamin J. Diden]]>27213 Benjamin J. Diden is the assistant director of bands at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as conductor of the symphonic band and assistant director of athletic bands. His duties also include music theory and applied clarinet instruction. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Wind Conducting at the University of South Carolina. Diden received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree and the Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting degree from the University of Tennessee. He has served as a graduate assistant for the Pride of the Southland Marching Band at UT and the Mighty Sound of the Southeast Marching Band at USC, where he worked extensively with the entire band program of each university. He taught for several years in the public schools of Tennessee, most recently at Cumberland County High School in Crossville, Tennessee. Diden is a member of MENC, the College Band Directors National Association, and the National Band Association. He is also an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi.]]> Teri Nagel113152941252011-09-06 07:28:4514180699892014-12-08 20:19:4900profileSymphonic Band, Athletic Bands, Music Theory]]>Symphonic Band
Marching Band
Pep Band
Music Theory
Composers 1800-Present
]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>352881657918352881image<![CDATA[Ben Diden 2014]]>14492457282015-12-04 16:15:2814758950802016-10-08 02:51:20657918image<![CDATA[Maintaining Good Mental Health]]>16515999092022-05-03 17:45:0916515999092022-05-03 17:45:09<![CDATA[Timothy Hsu]]>27814BackgroundTimothy Hsu comes from a background in both music and acoustics. He completed a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Recording Arts and Sciences from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Later he received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. research focused on acoustics—in particular hospital acoustics and the effects the noise has on the staff and patients. Timothy's current research interest lies in historically informed acoustics. As a cross-section between acoustics, musicology, and architecture, his research group is attempting to recreate the acoustics of historic venues and to look at how the acoustics may have affected composition and/or performance practice of the day. Additionally, his lab is studying historic period instruments as well by making computer models and physical measurements, and ultimately comparing them to their modern counterparts. Timothy is also an active conductor and pianist. He is the director the Georgia Tech Chorale, the non-auditioned mixed choral ensemble on campus, and is the associate director of the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir, the select auditioned choir.
Research Goals
To study and understand acoustics of historical buildings (extant or non-extant) in order to have historically informed performances in historical informed acoustics. To model, simulate, and measure period instruments to further our understanding of the music of the time and the sound of historical performances. To develop computer models of historical spaces and to devise better modeling techniques for more robust and more accurate results.
Course Offerings
Fundamentals of Musicianship IMusical AcousticsChoraleVocal Ensemble (with Dr. Jerry Ulrich) ]]> Lisa Herrmann113778600672013-08-30 10:54:2713807976922013-10-03 10:54:5200profileArchitectural acoustics, musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, noise control, early music, computer modeling.]]>Architectural acoustics, musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, noise control, early music, computer modeling]]><![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[]]>233811233811image<![CDATA[Timothy Hsu]]>14492436412015-12-04 15:40:4114758949032016-10-08 02:48:23